A winter plea! I know it is not always the easiest thing to do, but it would help us so much if winter accessories ( hats. gloves. scarves etc) are named or at least initialled so that we can reunite them with their owners even when those owners deny ever having had a pair of gloves with them !!

Also, please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Our new sounds this week were ee and oo. We have also enjoyed using our phonics skills to read independently – a great sense of achievement. We continue to practise correct letter formation .

Tricky words – no new tricky words this week, but please revise recognition and spelling of all block one tricky words so far.

Writing prompt this week was ‘I can see a bee’

Maths and numeracy focus

Our focus this week was on addition skills – aiming to use a counting on strategy where possible, Some pupils have been investigating how numbers are made of bundles of tens and units.

Below are links to two games we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.

Tens and Units – Shark numbers

Robot Addition

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we created sequences of the movement patterns we have been learning and then we made sets and learned to dance The Flying Scotsman

We have been learning about the world around us, fact finding about different species of bees and also taking advantage of the cold weather to explore the properties of ice. We left some pots of water in the playground overnight before bringing the frozen contents into school for some scientific exploration and discussion.

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts play on Thursday

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play the maths games listed above, or practice mental addition calculations with an adult.

Tell an adult what you know about bees.

Try out this icy experiment

( one for the adults!) If at all possible – start a collection of loose change – we will soon begin some formal learning about money and recognising real coins is an important outcome. In these cashless days children may not see coins very often.

Welcome back – it has been lovely to see the children and hear all about their holidays.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we discussed the role of Authors and illustrators and investigated the difference between fiction and non fiction texts. We have an authors table where we can begin to create our own books.

We also revised recognition of all our block one Tricky words

Tricky words

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was ’In the holiday’

Maths and numeracy focus

This week we revised how to correctly form the numerals 0 – 9

We also continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we started to learn some elements of Scottish Country dancing.

We have been learning more about article 1 of the UNCRC and we learned how to do watercolour colour washes as we prepared a display for the area.

Looking ahead to next week

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Please continue to practise correct letter ( and numeral) formation

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Good afternoon! We have had a busy couple of weeks during the lead up to Christmas.

Literacy

We have learned 3 new sounds – wibbly wobbly w, x and yo-yo y. We also learned two new tricky words: want and no.

In our writing this week, we drew a Christmas tree and described what we had created – some big trees and lots of baubles and tinsel!

Numeracy/maths

We started Symmetry last week, and have had great fun finger-painting symmetrical butterflies, creating symmetrical peg boards and numicon boards, and matching the symmetrical patterns on the smart board.

Other areas

We had a brilliant Santa run, and did amazing running for two whole laps of the school! We continued with The Nutcracker drama and dancing, and did some fantastic snowflake dancing. 

We also showed our cutting skills by making spiral Christmas trees.

Last week, we had a brilliant time playing games, meeting Santa and eating our yummy snacks at our Christmas Party!

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year!

Miss Croal

We have been very busy practising the nativity presentation ready to share with you next week. Thank you for sending in clothes, if you have not yet done so please can we have them on Monday morning for our dress rehearsal.

Here is a request from Primary 2

Our learning this week

Here are a few photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we have been revising the tricky words taught so far.

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

We had a visit from the school dental service – it was fun lying on a table !

In PE we have been playing games which give us opportunities to practise the skills we have learned.

We had a visit from the school dental service – it was fun lying on a table ! nurse.

We continue to practise our nativity presentation. Please support us by having on elast push with helping your child to learn their line and be able to speak it slowly and loudly – the hall is a very big space to fill with our voices.

Looking ahead to next week

Please keep practising those lines !

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Miss Nicol , our PGDE student finishes her 5 week placement with us today. We will really miss her and wish her well in her career – we have no doubt she will be an excellent teacher.

Apologies if last week’s blog did not appear for some people as usual – there were some technical issues, but hopefully it is there now along with this weeks. Any issues with seeing it please let me know.

Our learning this week

It has been such a busy week we have hardly had time to take any photos, but here are a few photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

j and v

and we introduced the tricky words

saw, was

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We also continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we have been playing games which give us opportunities to practise the skills we have learned.

We had a visit from the school nurse.

We continue to practise our nativity presentation. Please support us by helping your child to learn their line and be able to speak it slowly and loudly – the hall is a very big space to fill with our voices.

We were very excited about the school fair coming up on Friday afternoon.

Looking ahead to next week

Please keep practising those lines !

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

c, k, and ck

and we introduced the tricky words

put, his

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects.

We also continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued to make sequences of movements and travelling with our body at different levels as well as playing games which give us opportunities to practise the skills we have learned.

We had a visit from the author Morag Hood. She told us about her job as an author and illustrator and she helped us to draw a picture of the digger character from her book ‘Dig, Dig, Digger”

We have been learning about customs surrounding the festival of Diwali

Looking ahead to next week

We have started learning about the story of the Nativity. Everyone takes part in our presentation of the story and will bring home a small piece of paper on Monday with a line to learn. Please help your child to practise saying this slowly and clearly . Further information about the Nativity presentation will be sent home soon.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around the house for objects which are spheres, pyramids, cubes, cuboids or cones. Discuss how many faces ,vertices and edges you can see on the objects you have collected.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included electrical circuits and the moon.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

l and b

and we introduced the tricky words

me and is

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

leg bin bat lot

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We are learning our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued to make sequences of movements and travelling with our body at different levels

Miss Nicol has been talking to us about electricity, why we need it, how we use it, and how to stay safe.

Looking ahead to next week

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around your house for things that use electricity. Discuss with an adult where the power comes from….. is it mains electricity from a plug and socket, or is it a battery? If it is a battery is it one that you can charge or one you need to replace.

When you are out and about keep your eyes open for solar panels and wind farms.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included fish (particularly flying fish)and umbrellas.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

f and u

and we introduced the tricky words

the and he

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

fin fat tub nut fog fun

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was an umbrella

Maths and numeracy focus

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we had on fitness session and one on travelling movements and using different levels

Miss Nicol has been talking to us about electricity, why we need it, how we use it, and how to stay safe.

Here is a game which you might like to play and use as a discussion starter at home

We learned to follow instructions to draw a fish

We made flying fish by folding and joining paper strips. It was fun to drop them from a height and watch them fluttering.

We found a break in the weather and went for our walk in the local area. Please ask us what we saw, where we walked and what we discussed.

Looking ahead to next week

Please see email communications about arrangements for Wednesday

Loose parts play on Tuesday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around your house for things that use electricity. Discuss with an adult where the power comes from….. is it mains electricity from a plug and socket, or is it a battery? If it is a battery is it one that you can charge or one you need to replace.

When you are out and about keep your eyes open for solar panels and wind farms.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included autumn leaves, geese and octopuses /octopi ( both are correct plurals of octopus ) Ask your child to share some octopus facts with you.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

g and o

and we introduced the tricky words

I and to.

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

got dot dog mop get top

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was “I am in the garden…..”

Maths and numeracy focus

Some pupils are still finding it tricky to count backwards from 20 – 10. Please practise this at home if necessary. Many thanks

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we have been focusing on jumping and landing, bending our knees as we take off and again as we land, trying to land quietly on our toes and roll down to our heels with both feet together. We have jumped off and over things.

We looked in detail at autumn leaves to make our own drawings.

We had our school photographs taken

We have enjoyed playing some singing games and rhymes with Mrs Cross, developing our skill in keeping a steady beat and also exploring different ways in which we can use our voices.

Looking ahead to next week

We will be going for a walk in our local area on Thursday – more information to follow on Monday via email.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Write these sentences. An adult can read one to you and you use your knowledge of the tricky words and blending sounds to write independently. Give it a go, even if it is a challenge for you. Challenges are how we learn.

I am a cat.

I am ( insert own name).

I can hop.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included hedgehogs, dinosaurs, hairdressers, carrots and Concorde

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

d and h

Some children are already familiar with these letter sounds ( and more) and have already begun to build and blend words in class. These are skills to practise at home whenever you can.

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

dan mat sad hat arm had ham him ted

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was “In the playground…..”

Maths and numeracy focus

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we rounded off our block of learning to throw, catch, and control a ball with our feet.

The mobile Library came and we each chose a book to keep in the classroom

We had our flu medicine from the medical staff.

We have enjoyed playing some singing games and rhymes with Mrs Cross, developing our skill in keeping a steady beat and also exploring different ways in which we can use our voices.

Looking ahead to next week

Enjoy your holiday week. Look forward to seeing everyone again on Tuesday 24th.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Enjoy being outdoor as much as you can, hopefully the weather will be kind !

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.